The Journey So Far

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Detour to the Balkans

Detour to the Balkans

Well, not quite a “detour” in the strict sense of the word I suppose, since travel in the Balkans was in the “Europe” plan - it was, in fact, always to be the other half of the first leg of our Europe trip  ( after Scandinavia ). Here I will back up just a bit,...

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Sweden & Denmark

Sweden & Denmark

Oslo is barely a couple of hours from the Swedish border and like most others in the Schengen zone one crosses it almost without noticing. Stromstad - suddenly LOTS more RV’s around when we are looking for a place to park up at night. On the advice of our friend,...

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Norway: To Oslo And Out

Norway: To Oslo And Out

As much as we loved Norway we knew our time there was drawing to a close. With the Schengen visa restriction you simply can’t spend too much time in one European country or else you are left scrambling everywhere else. While Norway was definitely a major attraction...

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Norway: The Fjords

Can’t “win ‘em all” as they say. Travel long enough and you’ll get rained on somewhere - the typically beautiful Lofoten’s were largely a washout for us, so due to the poor weather there we moved on quickly. The Lofoten ferry took us out through the short route,...

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Norway – Turning South

Norway – Turning South

Reaching Nordkapp was definitely a highlight, correction,  probably thehighlight of our European trip so far, but that doesn’t mean there’s not a lot of great stuff left to see in Norway. In fact, Nordkapp is really just the beginning of some of Norway‘s...

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Norway – The Road To Nordkapp

Norway – The Road To Nordkapp

Inari ( Finland ) is only a short hop across Hwy 92 to the Norwegian border at Karasjok. From there it was only a 4 hour drive to the very top of Europe - to some a mystical place, to the Sami people of this region a place of spiritual significance, and to many others...

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Jeff + Lois

Jeff + Lois

The PanAm completed in April, 2022 and with the truck camper sold, we shipped our new Sprinter van to Australia in late 2022. We travelled there through all of 2023 and into 2024 before shipping it up to North East Asia where we travelled for 4 months between Korea and Japan, before shipping it back to North America. It’s our plan to continue exploring the world in 2025.

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